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When it comes to art about your political opponents, there’s nothing wrong with writing a broadside: “Masters of War” doesn’t spend a lot of time worrying about the inner life of the man in charge of Raytheon. But there’s also something to be said for attempts to humanize and understand people you disagree with, whether they’re sincere (see, e.g., Jim Shepard’s short story “John Ashcroft: More Important Things Than Me”) or deliberately half-assed (see, e.read more

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